Monday, May 31, 2010

SPEAK YOUR MIND HIP HOP ART FESTIVAL 2010: PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Daniel Hubbard, 916.206.9190 cell
One Vision Productions, LLC
316 California Ave Suite #216
Reno, NV 89509 USA
Email: syminvasion@gmail.com
Website: http://www.syminvasion.com

After giving Nevada its biggest Hip Hop Music Festival ever at the LAWLOR EVENTS CENTER in 2009 and selling out Northern Nevada’s hottest new venue, THE KNITTING FACTORY, earlier this Spring… SPEAK YOUR MIND is back!

SPEAK YOUR MIND HIP HOP ART FESTIVAL returns on July 18, 2010 with a seven Hour Show featuring over 25 Performances: Artists, Dancers, DJ’s, a Vendor Village and more. This free event will take place outside in downtown Reno at WINGFIELD PARK starting at 3pm and lasting until 10pm. Don’t miss a full day of art exhibitions and presentations from Reno’s experienced independent Hip Hop locals and Reno’s new breed of upcoming talent, as well as, artists from around the world.

ESTIMATE AGES: All Ages, majority 16-30
DATE OF SHOW: Sunday July 18th 2010
CITY, STATE: Downtown Reno, Nevada
EVENT LOCATION: Wingfield Park & West Street Plaza
EVENT TYPE: Conscious Hip Hop Art Festival
TICKET PRICE: Free
AGES: All Ages

SPEAK YOUR MIND is a Hip Hop oriented art festival designed to raise positive community awareness and personal knowledge. SPEAK YOUR MIND will not only raise money for a good cause but it will bring the community together and use popular music as a tool to teach. All the artists included in this event are informative, educated, independently successful, community orientated and display strong ideas in their lyrics. SPEAK YOUR MIND 2010 will raise money for the HOLLAND PROJECT and is an official event of RENO ARTOWN.

HOLLAND PROJECT: Art, music, culture. By young people, for young people. HOLLAND PROJECT is an all-ages arts and music initiative in the Truckee Meadows aiming to provide art access, music access, diverse workshop opportunities and community activism. SPEAK YOUR MIND 2010 is proud to support their goals.

ARTOWN: Reno is hosting the 15th annual ARTOWN festival in July 2010. The month-long summer arts festival features more than 400 events produced by more than 100 cultural organizations and businesses in locations citywide, with major funding provided by the City of Reno. SPEAK YOUR MIND 2010 is honored to be a part of this year’s festival.

PERFORMANCES BY: C Rayz Walz (Bronx, NY), Afro Classics (Living Legends), Sleep (Portland, OR), Louis Logic (Brooklyn, NY), Bash Bros (Bay Area, CA), Himself (Los Angeles, CA), The Apprentice, Rameses, Black Rock City Allstars, Metaphysical, Last Minute, Tree Woodz, Yours Truly, Mic-Rob, Westyle Virus, Spoken Views, trevercrow, Wordplay, Guilty One, J1Three, Smoke, Knowledge, The Halve Two, Ree_Set:One, Scarz of Marz, Winston Savage, KoalaT, Toc Roc & more